The Nigerian international journalist, David Hundeyin has revealed the reason most Nigerians hates him.
He revealed this through his official X Handle saying it is because his existence tells Nigerians they are lying to themselves.
A lot of people do not like me in Nigeria, and I know why. It is because my existence tells them that they are lying to themselves everyday. There are many people whose job description is to sell Nigeria and Nigerians everyday, and the things they tell themselves to rationalise their 21st century slave dealership are: "Everybody does it," "That's just the way things are in this country," and "I have no choice."
There are many Nigerian journalists who receive grants from foreign governments to write blatant lies claiming that "climate change" caused floods that were actually caused by poorly maintained or nonexistent infrastructure. Others receive these foreign grants to accuse people advocating for food sovereignty and political independence of being "Russian sponsored."
There are many Nigerian civil society actors who take money from foreign governments, knowing fully well that this makes them beholden primarily to the interests of those governments and not those of their country. Those foreign governments use them to launder money, interfere with Nigeria's internal politics, execute societal destabilisation and regime change operations, and gather extensive intelligence about Nigeria's conflict zones that even the Nigerian military does not have.
There are many independent actors within the Nigerian civic space who gained access to politicians and international power players, and then immediately sold out for a job as a Special Assistant, a NED fellowship, or a comfortable NGO gig in Nairobi.
What all these people have in common is that once presented with the choice between being truthful and getting zero material reward for it, and becoming a puppet with golden strings, they chose the latter. And they all comforted themselves by saying "Nobody in this country would have chosen any differently - na all of us be tief."
Then along comes this David guy with his big mouth, who isn't owned by anyone, and isn't afraid to rub it in everybody's face. It must be the most infuriating thing in the world to have to wake up everyday and look at walking, breathing, talking evidence nobody in Nigeria is in fact, predestined to be a "thief" - it's actually just the option that you individually chose."
And that's why I won't just give up, carry my ball and go home. That's why despite having a day job and running a whole journalism operation as a (stressful and unprofitable) passion project on the side, I feel like I have to remain in all of your faces. Because both you and the foreign interests that own you people need to constantly be reminded that the basic goal of colonialism in Africa - to reduce the natives to the uniform level of stomach-worshipping beasts of the field - has failed as long as some of us still exist.
Even if Nigeria is still doing nothing and going nowhere by the time I get old and die, it is still very important that the next generation should be able to refer to their history and see that contrary to popular opinion, Nigeria DOES in fact, have champions in every generation. Not every Nigerian is on a mindless, lifelong quest to fill his stomach at the expense of everybody else - that is just British colonial propaganda that has been internalised by many of you who don't think and examine your lives.
So I encourage you people to double, triple and quadruple your efforts to find some dirt on me. Search for whatever you can use to discredit me so that when you spend years searching and find nothing, and the truth finally dawns on you that not everybody in Nigeria is like you, your efforts would have created a reference point for coming generations.
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